Date:         Fri, 7 Dec 2001 07:32:50 -0600
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From:         Fred Gehm <fred.x.gehm@HOUSEHOLD.COM>
Subject:      Re: lost card
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Or a file.  I just got one reading tape on a mainframe.  By the by,
remember punched cards?  that's where the term came from.
Fred




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on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:49:20AM -0800, Shannon (swheatma@FJC.GOV) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone explain to me what a lost card is?

It's a message indicating that SAS thinks it missed a data "card" (line)
while reading input, usually from a CARDS, CARDS4, DATALINES, or
DATALINES4 statement.

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